Women, Indians, and Hispanics Fight for Change

Sections 30.1 and 30.2

Main Ideas

• In the 1960s women and American Indians struggled to achieve social justice.

• In the 1960s Latinos struggled to achieve social justice.

Who Are You?

• Abigail Adams• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

and Lucreita Mott• Gremke Sisters• Harriet Tubman• Susan Anthony• Jeannette Rankin• Frances Perkins

Question?

• What has been the typical role of women in US history?

• In the 1960s, this role will be challenged.

Women’s Rights

• Betty Friedan: fought for equal rights– Wrote The Feminine

Mystique – Feminism:

empowerment of women

Women’s Rights

• Women’s Liberation Movement– Equal pay– Equal access to jobs

• Equal Rights Amendment: proposed but never ratified– Strong opposition– Would have outlawed all

discrimination based on sex.

– Was this a good thing?

ERA

Gloria Steinem

• Journalist• Feminist• Leader of women’s

movement

Phyllis Schlafly

• Opponent of women’s movement

• conservative

Roe v. Wade

• Abortion rights• Highly controversial,

then and today• 1973• Supreme Court rules

that abortion is constitutional.

• How do conservatives feel?

• How do feminists feel?

• Result: women have ultimate control over their bodies.

Who am I?

Minorities

• Hispanics– Cesar Chavez– Migrant farm advocate– Pushed for better

treatment of immigrants.

– Organized boycotts to achieve goals

• American Indians– American Indian

Movement (AIM)– Organization that

pushed for better treatment of AI

– Used peaceful and violent tactics

– Seized Alcatraz, Wounded Knee 2, DC

American Indian Movement

1950s, 60s Culture Nuggets

• Radio and Color TV everywhere! Very influential

• Commercial Jet travel• Computers as large as rooms!– Silicon Valley: area in California that began to

specialize